Guidance on ESG Goal Setting: From Pledges to Progress
This report from the BELA ESG Frameworks Working Group shares a workflow created to provide organizations with a process of four “stage gates” on the road to successful execution of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) objectives. In addition to the workflow, the report includes some guiding questions for each item in the workflow. The report aims to help organizations go beyond broad commitments, and focus on goal setting and milestones to provide a method for achieving defined objectives.
The guide includes:
- Workflows on Strategy, Priorities, Goals, and Milestones
- Considerations and guidance for each of the above
Dept. of Justice’s White Collar Crime Enforcement Initiative, One Year Later
In October 2021, Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco announced a renewed focus from the Department of Justice on the prosecution of white collar crime, with additional comments from Principal Associate Deputy Attorney General John Carlin regarding cybercrime, and further comments in 2022 from Attorney General Merrick Garland and Assistant Attorney General Ken Polite.
A year later, Ethisphere CEO Erica Salmon Byrne leads a discussion in this Ethicast with Husch Blackwell Partner Gregg Sofer, Senior Associate Rebecca Furdek, and Senior Compliance and Ethics Advisor Sal Hernandez around where these developments have taken us, and where they are likely to go.
When Gifting Becomes Grifting: Keeping G&E on the Up and Up
With the gift-giving season right around the virtual or in-person corner, is your team all buttoned up when it comes to your organization’s gifts and entertainment policy? No one wants a gift to become a grift, even unintentionally. Learning that giving or accepting gifts that could potentially be considered inappropriate, no matter how well-intentioned, is more important than ever.
In this webinar, you will learn how to:
- Communicate your gift-giving policy in an engaging way
- Teach your employees how to properly express gratitude without risking customer or vendor relationships
- Understand how companies get into trouble – and what the potential long-term consequences could be
The Top 4 Areas of Spend Risk: How to Prevent Corruption and Fraud
Corruption and fraud are dangerous for not only your company’s finances, but also its reputation. These two looming compliance issues are found in all companies, regardless of size or scope, and can cost significant sums each year and devastate the bottom line. As a follow up to Lextegrity’s recent article in Ethisphere magazine on The Top 4 Areas of Spend Risk, this webcast will cover the processes and tools that can help compliance and audit teams stay focused and avoid these risks that can have huge financial, regulatory and reputational implications.
As you probably know, analyzing every potential indicator of spend risk within your company without context is nearly impossible. However, by gathering the knowledge to identify multiple tailored spend risk indicators simultaneously, you’ll be able to better position your compliance program and company to prevail in the fight against corruption and fraud.
In this webinar, we will explore:
- The top four areas of spend risk
- How to determine which parts of a company are most prone to these risks
- How to develop and execute processes to identify spend risk and prevent corruption and fraud
Featuring:
- Erica Salmon Byrne, President, Ethisphere
- Mihnea Rotariu, Risk & Compliance Analytics Director, Lextegrity
Answering Your Top Questions: Application Process for the 2023 World’s Most Ethical Companies
Whether you’re applying for the first time or a veteran, questions are bound to come up and we are here to help! As you work through submitting your 2023 World’s Most Ethical Companies Honorees application, we encourage you to join the team behind the application process.
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